Andrew J. DeHart: Insurance, Financial, and Philanthropic Leadership, 1886-1909
We have seen that Andrew J. DeHart had joined the Grand Unified Order of Odd Fellows as a young teacher in Cincinnati in the mid-1870s. Continue Reading
Tag: Race Relations
A. J. DeHart: the Cincinnati Civil Rights League, 1886-1890
When Andrew J. DeHart returned to Cincinnati in 1885 with his wife, Jubilee Singer Jennie Jackson, the couple stepped into leadership roles in the Black Continue Reading
A Cincinnati view of the Tulsa Race Massacre, 1921
A hundred years ago, news arrived in Cincinnati of the overnight “Race Riot” in Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 31, and June 1, 1921. Everyone at Continue Reading
Walnut Hills Ashland Park: An Aspirational Place for African Americans
Tennis emerged as a fashionable sport for white elites in the 1880s. Walnut Hills provided the settling for many early courts, beginning with a Continue Reading
Lane Seminary, Chinese Missionaries and Chinese Students during Reconstruction
Lane Theological Seminary on the east side Gilbert Avenue between Yale and Chapel was the first institution founded in Walnut Hills. It dated from about Continue Reading
Lincoln Avenue at the Beginning, a majority African American Community
The beginnings of Lincoln Avenue in Walnut Hills came officially in 1877, when the tree names for streets in the newly absorbed hilltop suburb caused Continue Reading
Melrose YMCA Development and Programming
In 1944, the Cincinnati and Hamilton County YMCA established the Walnut Hills branch, a Black alternative to the segregated Williams YMCA on McMillan. Initially the Continue Reading
Walnut Hills (Melrose) YMCA
With the closing of the Melrose YMCA for a remodeling that will leave most of the space in the hands of other non-profit organizations, we Continue Reading
Glimpses of Jazz in Walnut Hills: Kemper Lane Hotel
The Kemper Lane Hotel, at the corner of McMillan, provided a somewhat fewer and less expensive accommodations compared to the Hotel Alms a few block Continue Reading
Washington Terrace
Model Home by Schmidlapp Jacob Schmidlapp talked some of his friends into joining him in financing a half-million-dollar joint stock company called the Cincinnati Model Continue Reading